Berlin Olympic Stadium (#0440)

Since I have a strong interest in how design is used to forward political agendas, it made logical sense for me to visit the site of the 1936 Olympic games. BUT, I knew that the stadium was still used as a sports venue and thus assumed that it had been mangled enough with remodeling that I would be disappointed in trying to get a sense of the 1936 stadium. I was very much wrong.

Not only is the stadium an excellent example of bending architecture to ideology, but the city does an outstanding job of describing that connection through placards around the stadium. In the following series of very many pictures, I’m including multiple pictures of the placards themselves since they say, much better than I would, the connection between design and National Socialist political moods/needs.